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PhD student Lily Bui works with communities around the world to gather data from the bottom up. Lily Bui’s path to her PhD program in urban studies and planning at MIT has been a meandering one, yet along the way she has followed her…

An EPFL team is developing soft, flexible and reconfigurable robots. Air-actuated, they behave like human muscles and may be used in physical rehabilitation. They are made of low-cost materials and could easily be produced on a large…

New York City can expect 9ft. floods, as intense as that produced by 2012's Superstorm Sandy, at least three times more frequently over the next century - and possibly as much as 17 times more frequently, according to a paper published…

A team of researchers at Tsinghua University in China has found that adding graphene or carbon nanotubes to the food eaten by silkworms causes them to produce silk that is stronger than normal. In their paper published in Nanoletters, the…

The motorcycle of the future is so safe riders can cruise without helmet—all of the thrills with none of the danger—according to BMW. The German automaker unveiled on Tuesday its Motorrad Vision Next 100, a sleek, self-balancing…

Interlocking daisy-chain-like molecular structures that can switch from an expanded and contracted position based on the removal and addition of zinc, mimicking muscle behavior have been made by scientists in Taiwan. Their work appears in…

In August astronomers announced that the nearby star Proxima Centauri hosts an Earth-sized planet (called Proxima b) in its habitable zone. At first glance, Proxima Centauri seems nothing like our Sun. It's a small, cool, red dwarf star…

A neuro-inspired analog computer that has the ability to train itself to become better at whatever tasks it performs has been developed by researchers. Experimental tests have shown that the new system, which is based on the artificial…